For a while, Beck's "Record Club" project - in which he recruits various musicians like Charlotte Gainsbourg, MGMT, Wilco, Feist, Jamie Liddell, and Devendra Banhart to spend a day in a studio and record a cover version of a full album - was more intriguing in theory than in practice. The first two album choices - Velvet Underground and Nico and Songs of Leonard Cohen - were good, but a little safe, and the third choice, Skip Spence's Oar, was just okay.